On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:32:57PM -0600, Steven Lembark wrote: > > > -- "Heinz J . Mauelshagen" <mauelshagen@sistina.com> > > >> The unit of failure, for all pratical purposes, is the LV > >> (unless you are into using dd on raw disk devices to make > >> your backups). If one drive is likely to fail then any LV > >> crossing that LV is going to get fried (short of RAID) and > >> will have to be restored. > > > > With LVM2 (and deprecated LVM1.1) you are able to activate a VG even > > though some of its PVs are inaccessable. > > If any filesystem is mountable still depends on the availability > > of alternate superblocks and (at least) the root directory. > > Which seems to mean that the unit of failure still is > the LV: if an LV spans PV's and the PV looses data then > the LV is unusable. Yes, the unit of (partial) failure is the LV. Point is, that the LV still might be partially accessable. > The VG being able to survive an offline > PV is a Very Good Thing but doesn't do anything to help > someone with a filesystem on an LV with half its extents > missing. Well, that very much depends on _which_ extents are actually missing and what filesystem metadata and data they contain. I.e. if those containing (alternate) superblocks _and_ the root directory are accessable still, user might be very happy to be able to retrieve that partial filesystem. In particular if his updated critical files not backed up last night are still retrievable. Regards, Heinz -- The LVM Guy -- > > > -- > Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer > Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647 > +1 800 762 1582 > > _______________________________________________ > linux-lvm mailing list > linux-lvm@sistina.com > http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm > read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ *** Software bugs are stupid. Nevertheless it needs not so stupid people to solve them *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heinz Mauelshagen Sistina Software Inc. Senior Consultant/Developer Am Sonnenhang 11 56242 Marienrachdorf Germany Mauelshagen@Sistina.com +49 2626 141200 FAX 924446 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/
